Early life events, including nutrition, play a powerful role in programming a person’s development, metabolism and health for the future. This section covers all aspects of the importance of maternal nutrition in the first 1000 days including nutrition in pregnancy, epigenetics, metabolic programming, breastfeeding, growth & cognitive development and a lot more.
Publications
Intersections of Nutrition: Retracing Yesterday, Redefining Tomorrow
The 97th NNI Workshop, “Intersections of Nutrition: Retracing Yesterday, Redefining Tomorrow” held on June 2022 discussed how far pediatric nutrition research has come and how so many of these novel discoveries have become a part of our everyday
Global Trends in Nutrition and Health Through The Life Course
In the last three years, the global pandemic has amplified lifestyle and nutritional shifts of families everywhere. While this rapid change has led to prioritization of health and wellbeing, new health challenges also came about.
Annales 79.2 - Children‘s Diets in a Changing World
The world has gone through immense and rapid changes, and this has affected how we nourish and care for our children. While nutrition has improved overall, new challenges continue to arise, like the hike in childhood obesity, overlapping nutrition
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Infant feeding and later health: Exploring mechanisms to improve preventive approaches
The “First 1000 Days of Life” refers to a crucial period, comprising pregnancy and the first two postnatal years, which may have a lasting impact in terms of programming effects for later health. These are closely related to the environment on the
COVID-19 pandemic and nutrition status in children: A bidirectional negative relation
The COVID-19 virus has had a global effect, with almost 300 million confirmed cases by the year 2022. While this has hid mild disease and mortality for cases below the age of 19, this virus has had a multitude of effects on children indirectly, one
Breast milk, mother & infant triad as a biological complex
Human milk is the optimal food for the growing infant, with a wide array of benefits for both the mother and the baby for immediate and long-term health. This remains to be the best choice for feeding as it adapts to the infant’s development stage as
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Healthy and sustainable nutrition for children: important considerations
What we feed our children today determines their growth and development, influences their eating behaviour and habits, their lifelong health and future learning. Moreover, the way we produce, manufacture, distribute and consume food today puts a
Meeting the nutritional needs of preterm infants
Preterm infants have distinct physiological characteristics compared to term infants, which result in high and unique nutritional needs.
How to Make Children’s Diets Healthier and More Sustainable
Child nutrition has improved overall in recent decades. However, reductions in stunting and wasting have been offset by a rise in childhood obesity, making the diets of most children in most countries inadequate. Overlapping malnutrition issues are
Conferences
What we feed our children today will determine their growth, lifestyle, preferences, health outcomes at a later age. It is therefore imperative that children are given the opportunity of best nutrition possible from conception till growing up years
Latest News
Children more likely to like vegetables if mothers ate more during pregnancy, research claims
Every parent knows the struggle of trying to get young children to eat their greens at dinner time. But scientists now believe the problem could be avoided, if mothers consume more vegetables themselves during pregnancy.
Study argues iodine supplementation should start pre-pregnancy
Supplementation with iodine should begin pre-pregnancy in order to ensure healthy thyroid function and foetal neurodevelopment, according to the authors of a new cohort study.
